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- New Milford auto repairman feels urge to compete in poetry slams - Danbury News Times
New Milford auto repairman feels urge to compete in poetry slamsDanbury News Times, CT - 1 hour agoBy John Pirro Staff Writer DANBURY--There isn't a lot of money to be made on the competitive poetry circuit. Occasionally, you might win a small cash prize. ...
- Ralph Victor Heino Sr., 91, musician, composer - Seattle Times
Ralph Victor Heino Sr., 91, musician, composerSeattle Times, United States - 2 hours agoAt his nursing home Providence Mount St. Vincent, in West Seattle, he attended poetry readings and greeted people by singing Finnish folk songs, ...
- Entertainment calendar for the week of Aug. 21 - 28 - NRToday.com
Entertainment calendar for the week of Aug. 21 - 28NRToday.com, OR - 6 hours agoPOETRY SLAM — 6 pm, Granger Book Co., 111 Second Ave., Myrtle Creek. Read your own poetry or bring your favorite poem to read. Free public event. 793-5599. ...
- Religion As Poetry - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
James Carse, who directed the Religious Studies Program at NYU for 30 years, has a new book out called The Religious Case Against Belief . Here's his definition of a belief system, which he differentiates from religion: A belief system is meant to be ...
- Teenage poet sharing her work: Widdifield grad wins young authors contest (The North Bay Nugget)
Susie Gooch didn’t think her poem Infinitely was an award-winning piece when she first wrote it. “I was on the bus on the way from my sister’s graduation in Guelph and I didn’t really have anything with me so I started writing on Post-it Notes,” said the 17-year-old. [...]
- Culture and Sports: Macedonia hosts 47th Struga Poetry Evenings - Southeast European Times
Culture and Sports: Macedonia hosts 47th Struga Poetry EveningsSoutheast European Times, MD - 10 hours agoStruga, Macedonia, will host its 47th annual poetry festival. Also in the news: Burgas, Bulgaria enjoys an international music festival. The town of Struga, ...
- Raise Your Hand For Texas (The Terrell Tribune)
Raise Your Hand for Texas, a non-partisan grassroots advocacy group for public education in Texas, will present a forum at 6:45 p.m., Sept. 10 at the Terrell ISD Performing Arts Center.
- The Erotic, the Political, and the Personal (The New York Sun)
The Surrealist writer André Breton once declared that beauty would have to become convulsive, otherwise it would cease to be. As if in late vindication of this injunction, the paintings of Dawn Mellor set off a strange chain reaction of anger and lyricism. She is an artist driven by both sociopolitical protest and ambiguous, personal longings, linking her to Surrealism. Her paintings are at the ...
- Kay Ryan reluctant laureate? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
British poets laureate are expected to sing for their supper, but their American cousins can spend all day sleeping in their lovely Library of Congress office and still collect a check. ...
- Mixed bag at Latitude - Evening Standard
Aggressive intermittent showers may have encroached on the weekend but there were enough hours of factor-30 sunshine to keep the 25,000 cheerful. Latitude, this year proving itself as much an arts as a music festival, has doubled in size since its ...
- Women dominate fiction list for Montana NZ Book Awards (The New Zealand Herald)
The finalists of the Montana New Zealand Book Award have been named - and the fiction writers in the running are all women.
- A song a day keeps the doc away (China Daily)
Singing might be fun, joyful, and more importantly, might be good for your body and soul. Feng Haijun "The only thing better than singing is more singing," Ella Fitzgerald once said.
- Summer means more time for reading, what's your favorite book? - MLive.com
While the weather outside was frightful -- at least for June --Ă‚Â I sat inside and read a book. Nobody was home. No television. No music. Just the soft flutter of the page turning and the pounding rain interrupted by thunder outside. It was like ...
- Eshtiaq to perform in Tehran - MehrNews.com
Eshtiaq to perform in TehranMehrNews.com, Iran - 1 hour agoHe went on to say that he himself composed the vocal pieces that include poetry by Rumi to be performed during the second section and that Ali Qamsari, ...
- Poetry in Hellboy - New Straits Times
Poetry in HellboyNew Straits Times, Malaysia - 39 minutes agoI said I hadn’t responded to the part per se, I was more like a kid, excited about working with him, not so much responding. I’m just excited that I’m going ...
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